100 YEARS AGO,
OCTOBER 1920
FRONT PAGE NEWS: There have been 6,096 bales of cotton ginned here. This is the most wonderful ginning season ever recorded here.
“Gov” Stewart, the butler at Southern Depot, was before His Honor Lockhard last week for possession of a quart and a half of the meanest corn whiskey. After testimony from Marshall Copeland who found the evidence, the Mayor took the case under advisement and “Gov” went back to work.
50 YEARS AGO,
OCTOBER 1970
FROM A FEATURE STORY BY MARIE HEMPHILL: Football was tough here back in 1914. Brossie Correro and Bennie Barnett are two that remember way back when. “We were on the first team that Indianola ever had. This was before the school could even hire a coach. We had volunteers like Robert Gardner who had played in college and Jo Prichard from Inverness who played in college that helped us,” Correro said.
AROUMD THE TOWN BY MRS. R. M. YARBROUGH: Burk Fisher, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Gayden Fisher returned home Sunday from Fort Knox after completing his National Guard training. He will enroll in Mississippi State the second semester,
Mrs. Bessie Youngblood, 88, died October 27. She was a longtime merchant on Second Street in Indianola.
25 YEARS AGO,
OCTOBER 1995
Several nationally known civil rights activists will be at the courthouse tomorrow to encourage voter turnout for the election. Martin Luther King, III, son of the late slain leader, Joseph Lowery, president of SCLC.and comedian and activist Dick Gregory will be on the program. U. S. Representative Bennie Thompson will accompany them.
PUBLIC NOTICE FROM PLANTERS BANK. After 30 years of service to the retail environment in our community, Emily Smith is retiring. She will be honored with a reception in the boardroom of Planters Bank on November 7th.
GENTRY HIGH NEWS:
Lonzo Miller, band director at Gentry High School is proud to announce that the band won several top awards at the Greenville Marching Band Festival. Drum majors LaToya McDuffy and Ahmad Nelson are featured in a photo with the band director showing off the trophies
15 YEARS AGO,
OCTOBER 2005
IA SPORTS
The IA Colonels have earned a playoff berth against Carroll Academy. Seniors who played their last regular season game last Friday are Jared Braxton, Sammy Burnham, John Randle Wells, James Michael Dill, Thomas Gresham, Seth Bradshaw, Kyle Andruss, Chad Dowell and Ben Stallings.
FEATURE STORY BY THIS WRITER: Jane Allen McGregor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Matt McGregor makes decorative items from shards of broken glass.
UPDATE ON JANE ALLEN MCGREGOR
Jane Allen is now Mrs. Strider McCrory. They live in Inverness where he farms and they have two sons, Nichols, 11 and Crosby, 5. She doesn’t do much artwork with glass anymore but is still very much an artisan.
She works with wire and makes jewelry which is sold on Etsy online and at Montage in Greenville and Magnolia Marketplace in Indianola.
She also specializes in ornaments. She takes bulk orders from places like dental offices, doctors’ offices and a cotton boll for the National Cotton Council. She has even made toppers for wedding cakes.
“I love plants and have quite a variety. Strider is building us a greenhouse so I can have more. This past year, I have taken up foraging. We have wild edibles in our backyard that are very sought after in other parts of the world. Mushrooms and berries are my focus. Just this week I picked “Hen of the Woods” and I made “Opossum Grape Jelly.” “The flavor is amazing even it doesn’t jell,” she said.
The young housewife and mother has boundless talents and she is always looking for ways to exhibit them.
WRITER’S NOTE: I had a message from Dr. Neal Hurt saying that he appreciated and liked the update on him a few weeks ago However, there was an error. He proudly said,
“I am 92 not 82.” Sorry about that Doc.
